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Lawrenee ousiness district lay south of the river. Permission was finally granted
to run interurban tracks over the Douglas County oridge. At the south end of this
crossing the line purchased right of way into the Lawrence depot at €38 Nass=
achusetts Street and served the sowersock Flour Mill, the Lawrence faper Co.,

and oil and coal yards located on it's property. In building it's 34.7 mile line
from Kansas City to Lawrence, the Kaw Valley.Railroad paid taxes to three counties.
From Kansas City, Kansas, to a few miles beyond Sonner Springs, the Kansas City,
Kaw Valley, and Western ran in Wyandotte County, then crossed over into the
southern edge of Leavenworth County for about fifteen miles, finally laying four
miles of track in Douglas County,

Following the completion of the 34.7 mile line from Kansas City to Lawrence,
plus a few miles of leased track in Kansas City, Missouri, the Kaw Valley con-
tinued to look west for expansion. During late 1916 and early 1917, a route was
surveyed from Lawrence to topeka, some right of way was purchased and materials
were brought to Lawrence for the continued expansion of the line. However, world
war intervened and the expansion plans, though contemplated as late as 1923, were
to remaingd only on the drawing board and in the dreams of it's proponents. Sven
in being denied Topeka the Kaw Valley and it's owners were successful in that
they were the only ones of four electric lines to dream of entering Lawrence to
actually do so.

The route of the Kaw Valley in it's 34.7 miles reeled along the bluff most
of the fourteen mile trip into Bonner. Leaving the Kaw River at Eonner Springs,
the Kaw Valley line cut across in a ten mile diagonal to the town of Linwood,
then resumed it's meandering course along the Kaw the remaining ten miles into
Lawrence. Of the towns and cities along the route surviving to now are only
Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Hissouri, funcie, Edwardsville, Forest Lake,
ponner Springs, Linwood, and Lawrence. host of the above named places had es-
pecially constructed stations with ticket sellers, waiting rooms, and in some

cases, baggage rooms. Ihe remainder of the stops boasted only shelter houses